Portal:Armenia/Did you know

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• ...that as his last words before succumbing to wounds caused by an assassination by political rivals, Arpiar Arpiarian, who is considered the founder of realism in modern Armenian literature, uttered the words "I am Armenian"?

• ...that the medieval Noraduz cemetery contains the largest cluster of khachkars (stone crosses) in Armenia?

• ...that the Akhtala monastery was originally an Armenian Apostolic monastery that was converted into an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the 1200s?

• ...that in 362 AD, the rhetorician Prohaeresius, a friend of the pagan Emperor, was allowed to keep his teaching post in spite of a ban on Christians but resigned in protest?

• ...that the first three Ministers of the Privy Treasury of the Ottoman Empire were Armenian, the first being Hagop Kazazian Pasha?

• ...that Ani, a medieval city once rivaling Constantinople, was ransacked by Mongols and now stands in ruin?

• ...that Tigranakert was a center of Armenian culture until the Armenian Genocide of 1915, when the population was eradicated and replaced by Kurds?

• ...that Haghpat Monastery (pictured) in Armenia was placed on the World Heritage List over 1,000 years after it was founded?

• ...that Trdat the Architect reconstructed the dome of the Hagia Sophia in 989 and built the Cathedral of Ani?

• ...that the Armenian oil magnate Alexander Mantashev hand picked fifty talented young Armenians and sent them to study at the best universities of Europe and Russia?

• ...that one of the finest khachkar memorial stones is located at Goshavank Monastery in Armenia, the place where the law of Armenia was first codified by Mkhitar Gosh in the late 12th and early 13th century?

• ...that the vestry of Makaravank Monastery (pictured) in Armenia served two adjacent churches?